Is it possible to use a sprint phone to connect my laptop to the
internet?
I am *not* talking about mobile broadband cards!
What I am interested in would be sharing the phone's data connection.
Can that be done?

Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:11:05 -0400, TheGist <thegist@nospam.net> wrote:
>Is it possible to use a sprint phone to connect my laptop to the
>internet?
>I am *not* talking about mobile broadband cards!
>What I am interested in would be sharing the phone's data connection.
>Can that be done?

My experience with a palm centro is that it is "possible" but sprint
makes it impossible unless you pay an insane $50-60 month fee. For
an activity that I do perhaps 8 hours a year while on vacation searching
for motel rooms, I found that unacceptable, amounting to $75/hr connect
fee!

I downloaded an application that "shares" my phone internet connection with
a PC instead of using the phone as a modem. It works like a champ although
I wish I didn't have to boot windows to use it. ( I normally run linux )

Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?

In article <slrngbdhpo.qju.aznomad.3@ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net>,
AZ Nomad <aznomad.3@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:11:05 -0400, TheGist <thegist@nospam.net> wrote:
> >Is it possible to use a sprint phone to connect my laptop to the
> >internet?
> >I am *not* talking about mobile broadband cards!
> >What I am interested in would be sharing the phone's data connection.
> >Can that be done?
>
> My experience with a palm centro is that it is "possible" but sprint
> makes it impossible unless you pay an insane $50-60 month fee. For
> an activity that I do perhaps 8 hours a year while on vacation searching
> for motel rooms, I found that unacceptable, amounting to $75/hr connect
> fee!
>
> I downloaded an application that "shares" my phone internet connection with
> a PC instead of using the phone as a modem. It works like a champ although
> I wish I didn't have to boot windows to use it. ( I normally run linux )

Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:55:13 -0400, TL Mitchell <tlmitchell99@earthlink.net> wrote:
>"AZ Nomad" <aznomad.3@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote
>> My experience with a palm centro is that it is "possible" but sprint
>> makes it impossible unless you pay an insane $50-60 month fee.
>Izzat a fact? I've been tethering a Centro since last fall with no data plan
>other than Power Vision, no extra charges.

Didn't work for me and when I called sprint, they said first $60/mo and
then later $50/mo.

I used to teather my samsung sph-i500 with no problem, but it never worked
w/ my centro.

I passed the knowledge to my brother who also had an sph-i500 at the time and
was also able to teather, for about 7 months and then sprint cut him off.

Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:56:12 -0400, TheGist <thegist@nospam.net> wrote:
>In article <slrngbdhpo.qju.aznomad.3@ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net>,
> AZ Nomad <aznomad.3@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:11:05 -0400, TheGist <thegist@nospam.net> wrote:
>> >Is it possible to use a sprint phone to connect my laptop to the
>> >internet?
>> >I am *not* talking about mobile broadband cards!
>> >What I am interested in would be sharing the phone's data connection.
>> >Can that be done?
>>
>> My experience with a palm centro is that it is "possible" but sprint
>> makes it impossible unless you pay an insane $50-60 month fee. For
>> an activity that I do perhaps 8 hours a year while on vacation searching
>> for motel rooms, I found that unacceptable, amounting to $75/hr connect
>> fee!
>>
>> I downloaded an application that "shares" my phone internet connection with
>> a PC instead of using the phone as a modem. It works like a champ although
>> I wish I didn't have to boot windows to use it. ( I normally run linux )
>hmmm, I'd be interested in the name of this application.
>Thanks!

There's two out there right now.
I use PDAnet, but I'm also looking at one called usbmodem which might work
with linux.

Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:23:53 GMT, dan@sprint.com <dan@sprint.com> wrote:
>It's called tethering. PDAnet should work for you. If you want to go the
>legal way, you must add the Phone as Modem to your acct. (PAM for short)
>Sprint just lowered the fee to $15/mo

Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?

<dan@sprint.com> wrote in message news:1219958575_58437@news.usenet.com...
> It's called tethering. PDAnet should work for you. If you want to go the
> legal way, you must add the Phone as Modem to your acct. (PAM for short)
>
> Sprint just lowered the fee to $15/mo

The $15 plan is to add PAM to an already existing, high-buck data plan.
Whatta deal!

Re: connect to internet via a sprint phone?

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:25:45 -0400, TL Mitchell <tlmitchell99@earthlink.net> wrote:
><dan@sprint.com> wrote in message news:1219958575_58437@news.usenet.com...
>> It's called tethering. PDAnet should work for you. If you want to go the
>> legal way, you must add the Phone as Modem to your acct. (PAM for short)
>>
>> Sprint just lowered the fee to $15/mo
>The $15 plan is to add PAM to an already existing, high-buck data plan.
>Whatta deal!
>TL

Yeah. For somebody like me who uses tethering about 8 hours a year, it's
only $22 for each hour! Wow! What a deal!